Fasting cleanses the body and stimulates the natural self-healing powers. If a whole month is too long, you can start with a fasting week! The exact fasting instructions for seven days can be found here.
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- Fasting instructions: That's how it works!
- Fasting Guide: five fasting days
- Fasting instructions: two days of training
- Recipes for your fasting week
For long fasting diets you lack the staying power? Then try it with a fasting week. Dr. Hellmut Lützner recommends five days of fasting and two days of cultivation in his guide "How to reborn through fasting", with which you can switch back to solid food. We reveal the details of the fasting guide!
Fasting instructions: That's how it works!
Of course, while fasting, there are plenty of juices, water and broth on the program. Important: Drink very consciously and enjoy every sip. If you can not tolerate the juices well, put in a teaspoon of flaxseed. This binds aggressive fruit and vegetable acids. It's best to drink more than your thirst requires. If you are hungry, grab half a glass of buttermilk.
An important utensil during the fasting week is an intake vessel. Because for cleaning and detoxification the intestine needs a flush every other day. If you are prone to constipation, Glauber's salt can help in purging, which is dissolved in boiling water.
Sport can be continued during Lent Week. This ensures distraction and a good mood. In addition, during endurance training, you can burn fat and build muscle in just a few minutes.
Fasting Guide: five fasting days
In the morning : 2 cups of herbal tea (chamomile, mallow, rosemary or lemon balm) or unsweetened hot lemon water
Mornings : plenty of water, occasionally suck a piece of lemon
Lunch : 250 ml of home-made vegetable broth or vegetable juice diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 1 (hot or cold)
Afternoon : 2 cups of fruit tea (rosehip, fennel or apple peel) with lemon or half a teaspoon of honey
Evening : 250 ml of diluted fruit juice (hot or cold), alternatively diluted vegetable stock or juice
Fasting instructions: two days of training
1st construction day:
In the morning : herbal tea
Morning : 1 ripe apple
Lunch : 1 plate of potato and vegetable soup
Afternoon : fruit tea
Evening : tomato soup, buttermilk with 1 teaspoon flaxseed, 1 slice of crispbread
2nd construction day:
In the morning : 1 glass of sauerkraut juice or whey, on the eve soaked dried fruit, wheat meal porridge and possibly 2 slices of crispbread with 50 g herbal quark
Morning : lots of water
Lunch: salad leaves, jacket potatoes, carrots, organic yoghurt with sea buckthorn and flaxseed
Afternoon : lots of water
In the evening : carrot raw food, corn-vegetable soup, thick milk with flaxseed, 1 slice of crispbread
Literature tip:
"As new offered by fasting" by Dr. med. Med. Hellmut Lützner (GU publishing house, around 13 euros) prepares you with extensive tips on the fasting week and includes vegetable broth recipes for the fasting days and various recipes for the days of construction and the days after fasting.
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Recipes for your fasting week
Carrot broth for the fasting days
Ingredients for a portion
- 250 g carrots
- 1/2 stick leek
- some parsley root
- something celery
- 1 pinch of freshly ground nutmeg
- 2 tsp of yeast flakes
- 4 teaspoons freshly chopped parsley
preparation
Clean and wash the vegetables and cut them down. Put the whole in a pot with a liter of boiling water. Cook the vegetables soft for ten to twenty minutes. In the steam pot you need about five to seven minutes.
Brush the soup through a fine sieve and season with spices. Sprinkle the soup with yeast flakes and chopped parsley. In summer you can also enjoy the broth cold but not ice cold.
Organic yoghurt with sea buckthorn and flax seed for the second day of construction
Ingredients for a portion
- 1 cup of organic yoghurt (1.5%)
- 1 teaspoon of sea buckthorn juice sweetened with honey
- 1 heaped TL linseed
preparation
Put the organic yogurt with the sweetened sea buckthorn juice in a dessert bowl and mix well with a spoon. Sprinkle the yoghurt with linseed just before serving to prevent the seeds from swelling.
Cereal soup for the second day of construction
Ingredients for a soup
- 1/2 small onion
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp finely ground wheat
- 1/4 l vegetable stock or water
- 50 g celery tuber
- 1 pinch of sea salt
- 1 pinch of dried lovage
- 1 teaspoon freshly chopped parsley
That's how it's done
Peel the onion and finely chop it. Heat the oil in a pot and sweat the onion in it. Add the wheat grind and brown it lightly. Extinguish with broth or water. Bring everything to a boil briefly and simmer the meal over low heat for about ten minutes.
Wash, peel and rub the celery. Taste the grated soup with salt and lovage. Finally, sprinkle with celery and parsley.
